Brent Johnson
Senior Operations Manager
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Johnson is a Datacenter Operations Manager with 12 years of progressive IT operations experience, currently leading datacenter and data ops initiatives at IGT in Austin. He built his career in the lottery industry, moving from hands-on roles such as Network Monitoring Specialist and Systems Operator into leadership, giving him deep operational knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and incident management. Skilled in ITIL practices and requirements analysis, he focuses on reliability and measurable incident reduction while coordinating regional operations teams. Brent’s background combining frontline support and managerial responsibilities means he understands both the technical details and the process discipline needed to run mission-critical systems. He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is known for translating operational metrics into actionable improvements.
12 years of coding experience
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (20)
markov10
shadow8
minecraft8
rightscale7
obsidian7
audio6
python6
cpp5
stream5
objective-c5
foundry5
api-client4
api4
macos4
vtt4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brantai/codebro-bot
Jul 2021 - Jan 2026
a toy markov-bot project; behold: stream-of-consciousness python
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
pythonmarkov-bottoybotconsciousness
brantai/qmk_firmware
Oct 2018 - Mar 2024
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
rp2040controllerfirmwareavratmel
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